Extensibility is a system design principle where the implementation takes future growth into consideration. For iOS app extensions, use [ios-app-extension].
Questions tagged [extensibility]
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MEF-based app works great on local machine, but doesn't import AddIns when run from a network share
I am converting a home-grown plugin architecture to .NET 4.0's MEF. The MEF-based application works wonderfully when it is run from my local machine. When I move the application to network share and then run the application, however, MEF no longer…
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How to deploy Visual Studio add-ins via ClickOnce?
Is is possible to deploy VS add-ins using ClickOnce? How can I do it?
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Any way to add custom properties to the file properties grid in Visual Studio?
In Visual Studio (specifically, 2008 and 2010), when you invoke the View.PropertiesWindow command (default key, F4) in a C# project, you get a property grid with a standard set of properties that apply to all project items.
Is there any way to…
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Using Word 2007 as CMS page editor
I have been searching for several hours but i couldn't find anything about this... Basically I would like to create a template or plug-in for word 2007 that would allow someone to create new pages for a CMS. What I have in mind is something similar…
Hagalaz
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Visual Studio 2010 SDK Scan Source files in project
I'm working with the 2010 SDK and I am trying to figure out how to tie into VS in someway that I have a background process running that is constantly analyzing .CS files in the current project and adding them to a dictionary so I can show some…
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VS2010 Extensibility - how different is it?
A question to those of you who already looked at VS2010. How big are the changes that add-in developers will have to make in order to get their add-ins working under VS2010?
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How do you create a simple Automation Extender for Visual Studio with UITypeEditor
In Visual Studio when you select project or project items in the solution explorer there are times when you might want to add custom properties to the properties window(the window that pops up when you press F4). Also, to fill in the values of those…
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Is it possible to integrate IBM RTC Advisor fields to JAXB
I'm working on IBM RTC Advisors, based on a Workshop provided in http://jazz.net.
Now I´m trying to port the xsd document provided in their OSGi module to annotations+jaxb.
That´s part of the XSD:
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Visual Studio Remote Debugging Extensibility
I'm trying to attach to a remote machine with code similar to the following:
Debugger2 db (Debugger2)dte.Debugger;
Transport trans = db.Transports.Item("Default");
Process2 proc2 = (Process2)db.GetProcesses(trans,…
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A scripting engine for Ruby?
I am creating a Ruby On Rails website, and for one part it needs to be dynamic so that (sorta) trusted users can make parts of the website work differently. For this, I need a scripting language. In a sort of similar project in ASP.Net, I wrote my…
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Is it possible to customize WPF view creating mechanism to use my own ViewFactory?
I can create views myself using IoC without any problems if all dependencies that my view constructor needs as arguments are registered within my IoC-container.
But in case if I try to extensively use DataTemplates, then WPF creates my views. And…
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Linq to SQL Extensibility Method Definitions
If I have a Linq table of say User and I then do something like this;
public partial class DataAccessDataContext
{
partial void UpdateUser(User instance)
{
//do something here
}
}
What ends up happening is that the record is…
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Multiple messageSources in Spring configuration files
our web application uses Spring 2.5. It consists of several modules, each of which can bring additional Spring context files, which are loaded automatically (into one application context). We want to let each module provide additional resource…
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Basic MEF workflow/usage
I'm looking to a framework which will allow me to have a simple plugin system in my .NET application. It seems MEF is the framework which Microsoft is endorsing, and will become part of .NET 4 (it also seems to work with older .NET versions as a…
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Export multiple interfaces using MEF with one instance as result
I have a class which implements two interfaces, A and B:
public class Test
{
public Test()
{
Usage x = new Usage();
Usage y = new Usage();
var b =…
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